Another view of the grooming Syrphid Fly (Family Syrphidae) photographed in my lightbox setup. 7D, 100mm macro, 1/250, f/16, ISO 100, tripod, 2 remotely fired flashes. All comments are welcome and appreciated.
Steve....This is wonderful...esp that left wing.....It is amazing to me that you can get this kind of magnification with a 100 mm macro....Is there something else that is giving you this amazing magnification? It looks 2x at least
Bob - The way I can get this apparent magnification is simply by cropping the original image. (It helps to have a camera with lots of pixels so you can maintain IQ when doing this.) It is tempting to use the MP-E lens and move in really tight, but DOF suffers when you do this. If, like me, you tend to prefer images with more, rather than less, DOF it may work better to back away from your subject an inch or two to increase DOF and then crop the final image to get the subject size in the frame that you desire.
Dear Steve
I read that you are using a light box.
Do you have an example picture of the box?
I find this very interesting
Its a verry beatifull picture